Hurisa was rewarded with his biggest ever pay day, a $45,000 winners cheque and a $15,000 course record bonus.
Current Affairs:Derara Hurisa wasn’t the most loved for Tata Mumbai Marathon 2020 yet the Ethiopian bombshell the chances to win in a course record of 2:08:09 here on Sunday.
Hurisa was compensated with his greatest ever pay day, a $45,000 champs check and a $15,000 course record reward.
The sum he got on Sunday for his dazzling success was more than he had taken over his whole profession.
What’s more, the race was won with a couple of obtained dashing shoes.
“I lost my shoes while venturing out from Addis Ababa to Mumbai prior in the week. So I obtained a few shoes from my companion Abraham Girma (who additionally ran the Tata Mumbai Marathon). So I just gave them a shot just because yesterday,” Hurisa uncovered after the race.
In an exciting completion to the seventeenth release of TMM, three men moved toward the last kilometer together, yet Hurisa experienced the apparatuses as the trio passed that check point and he pulled away from his comrades Ayele Abshero and Birhanu Teshome.
Abshero and Teshome completed second and third individually in a period of 2:08:20 and 2:08:26, both coming inside the past course record of 2:08:35.
Before Sunday, 22-year-old Hurisa’s most remarkable accomplishment was winning the silver award in the African Cross Country Championships U20 race four years prior.
This was Hurisa’s subsequent worldwide success, the other being a relaxed half long distance race in Turkey in 2017.
Aditi Mehta 